Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (7 of 9): Henrie the Seauenth, Sonne to Edmund Earle of Richmond, Which Edmund was Brother by the Moothers Side to Henrie the SixtHolinshed, Raphael
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Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (7 of 9): Henrie the Seauenth, Sonne to Edmund Earle of Richmond, Which Edmund was Brother by the Moothers Side to Henrie the Sixt
Holinshed, Raphael
Great Britain -- History -- Henry VII, 1485-1509; Great Britain -- History -- To 1485; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
This yeare that worthie prelate Thomas Sauage archbishop of Yorke
departed this life at his castell of Cawood: a man beside the
worthinesse of his birth highlie estéemed with his prince for his fast
fidelitie and great wisedome. He bestowed great cost in repairing
the castell of Cawood and the manor of Scrobie. His bodie was buried
at Yorke, but he appointed by his testament, that his hart should be
buried at Macclesfield in Cheshire, where he was borne, in a chapell
there of his foundation, ioining to the south side of the church,
meaning to haue founded a college there also, if his purpose had not
béene preuented by death. After him succéeded doctor Benbridge in the
archbishops sée of Yorke, being the fiftie and sixt archbishop that had
sat in that sée.
[Sidenote: _Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag. 184._]
About this same time Lewes the French king, the twelfe of that name
(who succéeded Charles the eighth that died at Amboise the night before
the eighth daie of Aprill, of a catarrhe, which the physicians call an
apoplexie, the same rising in him with such abundance, as he beheld a
match plaied at tennisse, that in a few houres he ended at the same
place his life: during the which, he had with greater importunitie
than vertue troubled the whole world with great appearance of danger
to kindle eftsoones new fiers of innouation and troubles) maried his
eldest daughter named Clare, vnto Francis de Valois Dolphin of Vienne,
and duke of Angolesme, which ladie was promised vnto Charles the king
of Castile: wherevpon by ambassadors sent to and fro betwixt king
Henrie and the said king of Castile, a mariage was concluded betwixt
the said king of Castile, and the ladie Marie, daughter to king Henrie,
being about the age of ten yeares. For conclusion of which mariage,
the lord of Barow, & other ambassadors were sent into England from the
emperor Maximilian which with great rewards returned.
[Sidenote: 1508.]
[Sidenote: _Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 879._]
[Sidenote: William Capell sued by the king.]
[Sidenote: Tho. Knelsworth imprisoned.]
[Sidenote: Norwich on fier.]
¶ William Browne mercer maior of London, this yeare deceassed, and
foorthwith sir Laurence Ailmer draper was chosen and sworne, and went
home in a graie cloake, with the sword borne before him, on the eight
and twentith daie of March. Item he tooke his oth at the Tower, and
kept no feast. William Capell was put in sute by the king for things
by him doone in his maioraltie. Also Thomas Knelsworth that had béene
maior of London, and his shiriffes, were sent to the kings Bench,
till they were put to their fines of fouretéene hundred pounds. In
the moneth of Iune, the citie of Norwich was sore perished, & néere
consumed with fier, that began in a Frenchmans house named Peter
Iohnson, a surgian, in the parish of saint George.
[Sidenote: Frée schoole at Wlfrunehampton.]
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